Duan J. Ash  

About Duan

Duan is an Associate and member of both the Real Estate and Wills, Estates and Trusts teams. Duan strives to provide excellent service to his clients and understands that client relationships are built and centered on trust, loyalty, professionalism, and being genuine.

Duan is currently a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and serves on various committees and boards. He is a Committee member for the Black Lives Matter Golf Initiative and a Board Member for Basketball Nova Scotia and also sits on their Governance Committee which is a sub-committee for Basketball Nova along with being the head coach for Auburn Drive High School’s Women’s Basketball Team. Duan is also a former board member for the Nova Scotia Golf Association, a former member of the Nova Scotia Golf Association’s Finance Committee, and former Chair for the Nova Scotia Golf Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee He is also a former Dalhousie Advisory and Standing Committee Member (Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq Initiative Representative) and a former Executive Member for the Dalhousie Black Law Society Association.

Duan is passionate about giving back to his community and other communities. While he was an undergraduate student at Mount Saint Vincent University he volunteered his time outside of his studies and varsity athletic commitments (Men’s Basketball) as a sales representative for a clothing line based out of Toronto called “Tenfed” whose overall mission is to feed children of hunger both in Canada and around the world. Throughout law school, he volunteered and helped with fundraising for both the Dalhousie Black Law Society Association (DBLSA) and the Dalhousie Indigenous Law Society Association (DILSA) to raise money for the Association’s community outreach initiatives. Duan is currently co-leading a new Black Lives Matter Golf Initiative with the help of his committee to help promote and break social and economic barriers for underrepresented Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) youth and women to provide a more inclusive environment for the game of golf. Black Lives Matter Golf was recently named Community Sport Organizations of the Year at the 2022 Support4Sport Awards.

Outside of the office, Duan loves to golf, play basketball and soccer, listen to music (R & B/Hip-Hop/Smooth Jazz) and read.

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